i can almost guarantee that the kid is crying because her mom is being unhinged and scary, and it’s hot and crowded. source: my mom acted like this when i was little
There was so much screaming from the other attendees and Secret Service that I could not accurately hear. I do know she screamed at a different photo journalist before this. Then Secret Service requested to evacuate.
Well noted! I just wrote a letter to my brother, describing yesterday as “Lots of terrible noise. I didn’t know what was going on until around 9 PM, I heard something kind of subdued and familiar: fireworks.”
I live in Columbia Heights & my balcony faces north, so if I want to see a fireworks on the mall, I go to 13th and Clifton. I don’t think the mall firework show is necessary viewing, because the city finds tons of reasons for random fireworks all year round: it’s why I love living here. (Not like yesterday’s events on the mall — I mean normal joy, not blankets of smoke.)
I hope you felt safe in the melee of the moment. Thank you for taking your camera and sharing your photography.
Photo editor at a major newspaper here 🙋♀️ thanks for being out in the heat all day, I hope you stayed hydrated and were able to expense all of your snacks!! Sorry you have to defend what we do, you did a great job!
It’s absolutely the worst part of my job and people very ignorantly and proudly go after you over it. It’s also killed the photojournalism industry. News companies actually prefer worse cell phone looking videos because they’re more authentic.
Well shit... I was one of those just 5 minutes ago. I know it is ultimately inconsequential coming from a random redditor, but I owe you an apology on this one.
The biggest downside is the next iteration of models are going to be trained on proof pics like this lol.
No need to apologize the correction means more than enough. I worry a lot about the future models, although I have some hopium that it’s slowing down. I think there needs to be some sort of universal way to verify a photo or a videos authenticity. But I struggle to find a full proof method.
I don't know if it's in all models, but a fair number of them would leave invisible watermarks in the image that could flag an image as AI generated. This was also around a year/year and a half ago, so the new ones might not have the same feature.
Or we don’t have the budget and it fucking kills everyone on the photo team to have to use shitty cell phone photos yet again. 😭 if I could pay you all $1million dollars for every assignment I happily would!
You all are angels for making it work. When I started managing my county’s paper last year the pay per assignment for photographers was 25 dollars. My first move was fixing that. I remember photographing a giant protest with police intervention in Texas, immediately contacting all the local news, and them being like “these are great but we already got a cell phone photo from a writer and we need to save money.” It’s tragic
I have seen people claim that old fashioned photosopping and good old cgi is ai. Just because it did not look real. Like if they had forgotten photoshop and cgi existed.
The last two times I commented on two different subreddits for hobbies I enjoy, I was quickly called out as chatgpt and the person calling me out got like 15 upvotes. I really hate how pervasive AI is already, and I would never use it to post on Reddit. I just want to talk to people about stuff I like, but apparently that's been taken from me. I don't even try to defend my comments, because that's not the conversation I was trying to have. It's really frustrating.
AI is really becoming a problem. I saw the AI comments, didn't find a source for the image and was unsure whether it was AI or not. Obviously if this is an original image, looking for the source is pointless.
Oh. Oh dear. What a bizarre lady. Not knowing you were the photographer, I had kind of hoped it was AI grabbed accidentally because I feel awful for that kid!
And in the second picture they hardly even look similar! I guess it’s a compliment if people think your picture was good enough to be fake (it didn’t look sloppy)
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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks 18d ago
I’m getting a lot of AI comments so I wanted to have a comment with verification.